astropenguin5

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[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As an outsider to a lot of such corporate things it sounds like they both suck a lot, just in different ways.

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

A bit more context from reading the article

  • the bear was actively going through the trash of a woman's summer house while she was there which is why it was reported

  • the Iceland environmental agency actively decided to not try and relocate it, likely due to how expensive it would be to take back to Greenland

  • the bear is also being studied for potential diseases/parasites, how healthy it was, body fat, etc. which is nice I guess

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

In the video I saw of it on here the other day, the initial large blast lit up the night like the sun and made a mushroom cloud. It's certainly up there.

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It really is a wonder of human language processing that I read that correctly the first time, but the second time reading it it broke

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Exactly, there's already plenty. I do my best to scroll as fast as possible and not interact, it will be unfortunate if this makes it worse tho

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Exactly, there's already plenty. I do my best to scroll as fast as possible and not interact, it will be unfortunate if this makes it worse tho

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe both? Honestly just having flairs in most communities would be nice

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Little bit of pushback on the vr front: Sure, there aren't many massive publishers driving it forward, but I would wholeheartedly argue that it can very much be a social experience, and offers experiences it is damn near impossible to get anywhere else, and three games immediately come to mind:

VRchat (obviously): Literally entirely a social game, and has a pretty large community of people making things for it, from character models to worlds because that's what drives the game. There is a massive scene of online parties, raves, hangouts, etc. that bring people together across the whole world in a medium more real than any flat game because of the custom models, worlds, and the relative abundance of people using full body tracking to show off, dance, and interact with each other.

VTOL VR: This is still fairly social in that you can either play with friends or people online, but the main draw for me is the level of immersion in flying you can get. You have full interactable cockpits that you basically just use your real hands to interact with (depending on your controller/hand tracking) and it's all pretty realistic. It's just impossible to have the same level of experience without VR.

Walkabout mini golf: I was pretty skeptical of this game when my friends wanted to play it, it's literally just a mini golf sim. The thing is, the ability to play mini golf with friends who live across the country/world is amazing, and the physics of just swinging your controller/hands in the same way as real mini golf is so special.

It is still quite expensive to get really good gear, and that is definitely the current biggest hurdle. It may forever be a smaller community due to the space/tech/cost requirements to make the experience truly incredible, but for me even just on a quest 2 in my room without a lot of fancy stuff, it is still interesting and something special. A lot of people really do care a lot about VR, and even if it is far less than conventional gaming, it should not be entirely discounted. And I personally think that while is probably won't ever replace flat screen gaming, it is an entirely different kind of experience and has a at least decent future ahead

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn thats a lot lol

Interestingly though, it says germany only has 7, but this article says they are sending 6 so I'm assuming the Wikipedia is outdated.

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Technically the deflectors were only there in case the interruptors didn't work right for some reason I believe. Still kinda funny tho

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yea I just randomly went to go look at all posts I stead of my subscribed feed for a change and saw this, I have no prior clu of what the hell happened but I'm morbidly curious too lol

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

From my limited experience using it on a shitty Chromebook for school (granted also pretty locked down) and it's not great. Pretty much only useful for doing web things and the Google ecosystem. I also have no idea whether it's even possible to get it on anything else.

From a UI perspective I didn't really like it l, especially as it and other chrome apps got more and more sleek and curvy. I did grow up using a Linux mint laptop though, only getting a dual booted Linux/Windows PC in highschool for some games that needed it as well as running SOLIDWORKS at home. (thanks to my dad for all that lol)

 

Sometimes it will work after multiple presses, sometimes not at all. It may be a Lemmy or Lemmy.world problem, but if it's Voyager I'm on Android using firefox

 

As some may have noticed, a fairly large portion of the post on this community are article links posted by bots. I am no moderator and am just a regular user like the rest of you, but I want to know what the community thinks of the posting bots. here is a sample of my opinion to get conversation started:

Pros:

  • lots of content to engage with
  • people can focus on discussing things not finding thing

Cons:

  • lack of reliable quality of article
  • lack of diversity of content
 

I am about to go to college for engineering and they require a Windows laptop because of the software we will be using (mostly solidworks I'm pretty sure) doesn't work on other operating systems. I primarily use windows day-to-day for gaming and such anyways so it's not a problem for me but I'm wondering if anyone had experience using solidworks or any other industry-class CAD software like Inventor on linux

 
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